Quotes of: Truths Keyword

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

Kingdom Come

She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat.

Keeping Faith

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

Killosophy

Truth in Christ is not a matter of being near or far like in martial arts when you strive for a black belt. He saves us then we grow; not the other way around.

Killosophy

There is a kind of truth in a well-told lie. When we look back, we don't see things as they were but how we would like them to have been.

Katie in Love

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.

Rise of the Morningstar

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

The Red Pyramid

The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just a part of it.

The Replacement

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Rhiannon's Law #14: There is a reason the truth hurts. When you cease to feel the sting, it means you've stopped caring. And damn, wouldn't that be a total fucking waste?

The Renfield Syndrome

They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth.

The Revenants

...actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.

Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Sexing the Cherry

Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?"--Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor

Six Days of the Condor

Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.

Sweet Destiny

Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.

Siddhartha

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor

Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game

Embracing the Light Collected bits of truth Shimmering sparks Shards of light Merge Healing Restoring Bursting Bright Rising in divine ecstatic flame.

Shekhina

Fill your heart with truth so that the wisdom of Christ will flow fluently from you like a living river moving into the seeking hearts of the thirsty.

Standing at the Top of the Hill